The last couple of weeks

I have been very busy and kept taking pictures and meaning to post but haven’t gotten around to it.  I may need to do a once a week thing.  Spring is here and so we have been working in our garden.  It is still a work in process but we are getting there.  Last year we decided to totally change the way we garden and it has taken a little while to move everything around, pull all of the wooden logs out, etc.  We are now trying to garden using black plastic which is supposed to keep the weeds out.  We will see.

We bought seeds and planted seeds in each little compartment.  I did buy tomato plants though.

 

 

Nathan and Daddy working sand into the dirt for the carrots.

 

We are hoping to have a nice garden this year.  Last year it was so hot and dry everything just dried up and blew away.

We had Easter and the kids searched for eggs.  Here they are in their new clothes.

                    Mandy has really grown.  Nathan and his new suit.We have some beautiful flowers this year as we have had a lot of rain and it has been a banner year for wildflowers and roses. 

 

 

I really like to take pictures of flowers and outdoor scenes.   I get kidded about it all the time.

We have also added baby chicks and guinea fowl to our menagerie.  Goldie, our hen became broody (sitting on the eggs and never leaving the nest) about a month ago.  She sat on 6 eggs for a month.  One of them hatched but died that night and the others didn’t hatch for some unknown reason.  We went to the local “chicken lady” and bought some days old chicks and placed them under her in the evening.  The next morning she was clucking at them and they were following her around.  Very cute.We also bought some guinea fowls.   They are smallish birds that take care of themselves after they are feathered out.  They will (supposedly) sleep in the chicken coop but fly out in the morning and they eat bugs and ticks.  They will fly into the garden and not bother the plants but eat the bugs.  We shall see.Last but not least – Mandy has been cleared by the surgeon. She had her rod taken out of her leg and is now doing great.  Her prize for that long, long recovery is a new bike.  Mandy was able to pick out her own and it is of course, pink.  She had a couple of days of not being steady but is doing well now.  Whew! it has been a long road.

We are looking forward to having school out soon and a wonderful summer full of family, swimming lessons, scout day camp, and a art camp or maybe a horse riding camp for Mandy.